Rhaedas

And… the network cancels it. As usual.

I’ve switched the default search engine in Firefox to DDG finally, and I honestly haven’t noticed a difference in results. This may not be the best praise though, since Google has sucked for a number of years now.

Not in chat, but professional writers will. They know all the short keys for those type characters, including that m dash everyone now associates with being AI. It just shows how much of the training data used came from professional papers and not general discussion areas.

John Connor: We’re not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. The Terminator: It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.

I think it was Robin Williams that had a take on that, only he included the death would be temporary. So you’d wake up from being killed and realize you were a jerk.

Everything seems to be a surprise for this guy.

Did you mention the center wheel click? No? Probably for the best.

It’s partially that. It’s also because printers do suck more now. Had an HP 5p in the 90s that was a workhorse, reliable as hell, and would simply print whatever you sent. period.

Oh, you have that aura too? I like it in that it helps me avoid spending time on fixes, but it’s annoying too because deep in my mind I wonder what really went wrong.

Remember during Covid when he was given a softball question for Trump to respond to the public who might be afraid. He did the same thing. He couldn’t even give a bland, Hollywood President level answer. He attacked the reporter asking it.

That link is a great read, but glosses over the initial issue and apology. What I had read (maybe in your other post) was a self promotion rule was broken, really a minor one if it was a first time thing, and when the artist apologized, or rather I think it was more questioning if what he did was promotion at all (which I think is what sparked the mod to wield their power). Such a little thing that should have stayed in DMs and been resolved simply, but power tripping is a strong drug.

Sometimes? I wouldn’t worry about your unease in walking out of your bank with your money, I’d worry about having your money in that bank where they apparently give money out to anyone.

Seems a bit too easy if that’s all you’re doing without any verification. If they’re checking that you are who you say you are, then it’s your money.

I was in the webmaster role for a website from the early start of the internet - SEO started off as simple ways to help improve index placement by giving different methods to the web creators to aid in better categorization of content. It quickly became an arms race of how to best game the system, and the system kept changing as well because the old SEO basics like keyword and content arrangement wasn’t enough. There was one search engine I participated in (I can’t recall now which one) that did the pay for clicks, and you’d literally have to pump money in the online app to try and stay above your keyword competitors, all in real time. It got stupid. And I got frustrated with it, as I felt the original goal to find the best website for a particular search had been long lost and now it was all about mechanisms to profit from everyone trying to make that first page hit. The “best” sites that couldn’t play this game were lost.

Google became the dominant player by buying up other databases and engines, but even with this gaming they used to be able to produce results if you knew how to phrase searches beyond just a few words. It’s almost like the whole AI prompting, what you put in makes a difference. But they eventually changed things and started getting worse results, lots of duplication, and then added AI which ruined anything they still had of quality.

I miss Hotbot. That was my go-to long ago, and it was so good. It became part of Google eventually.

“Not sorry this time.”

Note: Brain era may not reflect actual age. Some are far advanced, some are stuck.

I have four, all in mid-grade school (7-8).

A mobile of various paper models of satellites, along with a research paper that told about them.

A cardboard model of the USS Monitor from the Civil War (for US History obviously).

Another for history was a functioning balsa wood model of a guillotine, with a (dull) metal blade. And a deheaded G.I. Joe (I didn’t have any French aristocrat dolls handy).

A video book report made by with a few friends using the library’s video camera (back before phone cameras). We did it in the style of a satirical news program/Monty Python humor with various clips from reporters of parts of the book’s story. I don’t know why I never asked for a copy… but you don’t think about that as a kid.

But you would be insulting her if you called her racist.

On a positive note: imagine how large scale and resilient the US economy is to not yet be nose first in the ground already. Don’t mistake me, it’s bad and heading that way, and lots of damage and people have been hurt, but even the bankruptcy king who can ruin businesses that run themselves couldn’t immediately tank it.

It’s like the bull ran through the china shop a few times, and while there’s debris on the floor, there’s still a lot that hasn’t been knocked down. Oh wait, here he comes through again…

No. Please stop.